Get $25 restaurant gift certificates for $10 or less using a Promo Coupon Code! Find your favorite restaurants in town! Save!
•More than 20,000 restaurants nationwide.
•Use the deal just like cash for up to 50% savings on the final bill. Restrictions apply. Typically $50 needs to be spent with the $25 certificate.
•Use on your smartphone.
•Easy & Free online exchange.
•Never expire.
•If a restaurant closes or decides not to accept the certificate you will receive a credit to get another certificate.

RAIL EUROPE
The Eurail Global Pass gives you unlimited rail travel on the national railroads of the participating 28 Eurail countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey (Liechtenstein and Monaco are considered part of Austria and France respectively). Choose a continuous pass good for 15 or 22 travel days, or 1, 2 or 3 travel months; or a flexi pass offering 5 or 7 travel days of travel within a 1 month period or 10 or 15 travel days to be used within a 2-month period, with your choice of consecutive or non-consecutive travel days. The Eurail Global pass also offers Saverpass fares for 2 or more traveling together.

MADE AT LEAST ONE PURCHASE
A study by NPD found some interesting statistics on where people shop. What percentage of people have made at least one purchase at Wal-Mart last year? Go ahead, take a guess. You guessed 60%? No, try again. 75%? Nope. It’s 95%. That’s a very high number.

Figuring that a Wal-Mart is a relatively short driving distance from just about everyone, it makes sense. Convenience is important. I figured the number would be lower because some people just don’t like Wal-Mart. They made some inroads to people who object to Wal-Mart when they raised their minimum wages for everyone and improved their scheduling for workers.

Stats for other stores are revealing also. The number of shoppers visiting Target at least once last year was 84%, for Walgreen’s it was 77%, at Dollar Tree it was 71% and 69% for CVS.

It made me think of stores I’ve never been to mostly because of their distance or I don’t have coupons for them when I am in the area. They are Stein Mart, Gordman’s, and Hobby Lobby. We were at Gordman’s this past weekend and when we went to go inside the store we were told they were closed for inventory. So almost. They are going out of business, so it may never happen unless I happen to be there before they close altogether. I’ve also never been to Big Al’s Used Denture Shoppe for good reason.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 6th at participating comic-book shops. It’s the day comic book stores give away free comic books! Find more information about the giveaway at http://www.freecomicbookday.com.

CLEARANCE
If you dig around stores, you’ll find some clearance items up to 75% off. Stores are clearing out discontinued merchandise and offering customers great discounts to get them off the shelf. Rite Aid, Giant Eagle, CVS, and Walgreens are offering big clearance discounts. Stores usually do so at different points throughout the year after checking sales of items and reassessing their product mix.

At Target if the price on the clearance sticker ends in an ‘8’, it will be marked down again. If it ends in a ‘4’, it will not go any lower in price. For holiday items the prices are marked down 50% off the first three days after the holiday. The next three days they are marked down to 70% off. After the next two days they are marked down 90% off.

MARCS
Marc’s is now accepting Discover, Visa, and Mastercard at all of their locations! Initially they tested taking them at a handful of their locations. Less people now fumbling around for cash or having to wait for someone to write a check!

Marc’s wanted to save the 2% to 3% that credit card companies charge stores. They should see more customers that enjoy the convenience of using a credit card.

TULIPALOOZA
In the fall/winter I took advantage of Lowe’s 90% off clearance sale on flower bulbs. I got a blister planting hundreds of tulips. Thanks to my neighbors, Bob and Darlene, they let me borrow an augur that goes on a drill to plant the bulbs. Cut the time down a ton to plant them and no blisters! Luckily the deer stay out of the fenced yard. They did eat some supposed deer-resistant bulbs plants I planted outside the fenced area. They apparently didn’t read the packaging that said they were deer resistant bulbs.

TOP TEN THINGS OVERHEARD AT THE NFL PLAYER DRAFT
10) Anyone for cribbage while we wait for our team’s pick to come in?
9) I heard he has a weak arm and a delicate bladder.
8) Which room is it to the Hee Haw convention?
7) Is Manziel available in this draft?
6) If a safety recovers a ball in the end zone and scores a safety do they score double the points?
5) They gotta draft a franchise quarterback this year (said during every Browns draft).
4) I wouldn’t even trade him for a bag of cinnamon potpourri and expired library card.
3) I heard he tested positive for illegal use of jazz hands.
2) Those Jets sure are patient.
1) Is this the line to put in my pick?

ENERGY STAR
Would you cut a government program that has reduced consumer costs by $34 billion per year when the program costs $50 million per year to administer? Seems like a no-brainer, but not according the current administration. The proposed budget would eliminate funding for Energy Star, an energy efficiency program for products.

I’m all for cutting wasteful spending by the government, but this program shouldn’t be on the list for defunding. For instance, Energy Star washers save $55 to $150 a year over older, non-Energy Star models. Non-energy star refrigerators are up to 40% less energy-efficient than current models, saving up to $180 annually.

More than 1,000 U.S. companies are urging Congress to keep the program.

Getting companies to improve their products to reduce energy usage helps everyone’s pocketbook and improves the environment. Speaking of, did you notice the coal-puffing First Energy plant near East 72nd off of I-90 has now been torn down? It’s odd driving past it and not seeing the looming smokestacks there anymore. Cheaper and cleaner natural gas has been making coal powered plants obsolete with over 40% of coal plants closing in the past couple decades across the U.S.

Energy Star, begun in 1992, is known for its blue-and-white star logo that appears on hundreds of products from washing machines to furnaces and computers.

Standup Comedy Shows for Two for $15 (Save $20.30) – The Rich Guzzi Comedy Hypnosis Experience or Mr. Showtime David Scott Featuring Jay Stevens
Up to 42% Off Indian Cuisine at Pari Authentic Indian Food
Brad Paisley w/ Dustin Lynch & More – Up to 55% Off Country

Garden Bros. Circus for $25 – Save $18.15
Up to 94% Off Canvas Prints from Simple Canvas Prints
Up to 62% Off Spa Packages at Mario’s International Spa in Aurora
48% Off at Fuji Japanese Steakhouse
Up to 48% Off at Hibachi Japanese Restaurant
Up to 67% Off at Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society
Up to 50% Off Fondue at The Melting Pot
50% Off Lawn Fertilization and Weed Control by WonderGro
58% Off Birthday Cakes and Treats from Shari’s Berries

CLASS SCHEDULE
Learn how to save a ton of money at one of my classes! Learn how to consistently save 70% and more grocery and toiletry shopping. Find out new ways to save money on restaurants, utilities, cell/smart phones, travel, gas, prescriptions, clothes, and much more! To view my upcoming class schedule please go to: http://www.joethecouponguy.com/schedule/index.htm .

At my Travel Affordably class learn how to get the best deals on car rentals, flights, cruises, lodging, and transportation. Find out how to save on entertainment and restaurants at your destination. You’ll learn where to find bus trips to Chicago for $2 round-trip, Cruises for 80% off or more, free flights, the best places to economically travel, and travel saving secrets.

Be sure to register for libraries that require registration as some have waiting lists. All classes are free unless otherwise noted. I hope to see you there!

If you’re interested in booking a class for your organization whether it be a PTA, Senior Center, Business, Church, or Library, please contact me at joe@joethecouponguy.com or 440-227-6223. I’ve done classes all across Ohio and for many businesses including the Cleveland Clinic, Bendix, Lake Hospitals, Hyland Software, and others. I can tailor the topics to your organization.

If you’d like for me to teach a class at your local library, feel free to contact your library and request me. Have them get a hold of me at joe@joethecouponguy.com to book me.

OUR TOWN AND ALL AROUND COUPON BOOKThe 2017 Our Town Coupon Book is now on sale for $15 with FREE shipping! Save $13!

The 2017 Our Town coupon book has around 1,000 coupons for Northeast Ohio area restaurants, fast food, drug stores, movies, golf courses, pizza, dry cleaning, wineries, entertainment and more! The Best coupon book available in the area! It’s like getting 1,000 Groupons. All for only $15! Some restaurant coupons are good for up to $30 off! The book can pay for itself with just one coupon! The coupons are good through Dec. 1, 2017! A great bargain! Keep a book in each car.

* MISC. COUPONS – Find coupons for Keener’s Family Cleaners, IGA (five $5 off $20 purchase coupons), Gale’s Garden Centers, QuickChange, and Granny Anne’s Same Day Cleaners! Get a $25 gift card at Discount Drug Mart or $15 gift card at Marc’s with the transferred prescription coupon in the book (have them honored as competitors coupons at other pharmacies).

SAVVY SHOPPER BOOKLETUpdated! Get the Savvy Shopper Booklet and learn how to save tons of money! The booklet has over 190 pages with thousands of money-saving tips. Great for someone just starting out or wants to learn more ways to save money. Only $13 plus get FREE shipping! Learn to save thousands and thousands of dollars!

Giant Eagle doubles coupons that are 99 cents or less. For example that means a .75 coupon will double to $1.50 off. It happens automatically when a coupon that is 99 cents or less is scanned at the register – 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Get 10 cents in Fuelperks for every $50 spent ($3 savings).

Get eCoupons good at Giant Eagle at https://ecoupons.gianteagle.com/. An eOffer won’t work if you use a manufacturer coupon for the same item. An eCoupon will supersede a paper coupon. ECoupons link to your loyalty card and trigger when you purchase the item – only works once and doesn’t double.

Plenti Points is a savings program that allows you to earn points from Plenti partners in-store and online. Partners include Macy’s, Hulu, AT&T, Mobil, Nationwide, Direct Energy, and Exxon. Visit http://www.plenti.com/partners to learn more about how Plenti works with each partner. It’s mot much different than Walgreen’s Balance Rewards program. Read more about the program at https://shop.riteaid.com/info/plenti

Through wellness+ with Plenti, customers can use one card and earn two kinds of points. Sign up at https://www.riteaid.com/shop/info/wellness-with-Plenti.
•Members will continue to earn wellness+ points toward various benefits at Rite Aid including discounts of up to 20% off storewide, exclusive sale prices and 24/7 access to a pharmacist.
•Members will be able to earn Plenti points whenever they make qualifying purchases at Rite Aid and other Plenti partners. Plenti points can be used for up to two years at Rite Aid and at certain other Plenti partners.

BENEFITS
Members with 0 – 499 points will be Bronze status and earn (1) 10% off one-time shopping pass with every 100 wellness+ points earned until they reach 499 points. With 500 wellness+ points, members earn Silver status and qualify for 10% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year. And with 1,000 wellness+ points, members earn Gold status and qualify for 20% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year.

Wellness+ points are points earned toward Bronze, Silver and Gold status discounts exclusively at Rite Aid. Members can earn one wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible front-end purchases and up to 25 wellness+ points for every eligible prescription.

In addition to exclusive members-only sale pricing and earning points toward savings of up to 20% storewide, wellness+ with Plenti members will enjoy the following wellness+ benefits:
•24/7 access to a Rite Aid Pharmacist
•Exclusive money-saving offers and information by email.
•The option to load coupons direct to card.
•Members will continue to earn: •1 wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible purchases they make at Rite Aid when they scan their new Plenti card at the register.
•25 wellness+ points for every non-government funded prescription purchased when using your Plenti card
•And 1 wellness+ point for every dollar spent on copays (not to exceed 25 points per prescription) for government-funded prescriptions.

Wellness+ points will continue to reset at the end of each year, but all earned Silver and Gold status discounts remain active through the end of the next calendar year.

Join Balance Rewards to earn points on thousands of items, including every prescription and immunization. Purchase items in-store or online to earn points. Redeem points for dollar rewards that you can get instantly at the checkout.
Click here to get enrolled: Walgreens Reward Program

• Get 500 points for every prescription and immunization
• Redeem instantly with as few as 5,000 points

COUPONS.COM
Get over 200 internet grocery and toiletry coupons at Coupons.com. They will double at stores as per their rules (Giant Eagle, Dave’s Supermarket, and Buehlers doubles coupons of 99 cents and less). Get them before they disappear!

SAVING STAR
Get ecoupons on Saving Star! Just enter in your loyalty card accounts then click on the coupons you want and you’ll get the savings once the item is purchased. Accumulate the savings and then send it to your PayPal account or other account. There is even a produce discount given with their Healthy offer of the week! Get a Freebie item when you have redeemed an eligible number of purchases per month. Get an item for free once you activate the item online and purchase it at a linked loyalty card store. Giant Eagle, CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens are just some of the stores that are part of the program.

Weekly Deals for Annual subscriptions:
Memphis Magazine Just $4.99 for 1 Year at Best Deal Magazines, May 1st Only – A Retail Value of $59.88 – Order Now! Use Coupon Code 15CJ0507 and Save an Additional 15%!

Atlanta Magazine Just $3.99 for 1 Year at Best Deal Magazines, May 2nd Only – A Retail Value of $59.40 – Order Now! Use Coupon Code 15CJ0507 and Save an Additional 15%!

Los Angeles Magazine Just $3.99 for 1 Year at Best Deal Magazines, May 3rd Only – A Retail Value of $59.40 – Order Now! Use Coupon Code 15CJ0507 and Save an Additional 15%!

Cleveland Magazine Just $5.29 for 1 Year at Best Deal Magazines, May 4th Only – A Retail Value of $42 – Order Now! Use Coupon Code 15CJ0507 and Save an Additional 15%!

Colorado Homes & Lifestyles Magazine Just $4.99 for 1 Year at Best Deal Magazines, May 5th Only – A Retail Value of $44.55 Use Coupon Code 15CJ0507 and Save an Additional 15%!

Orange Coast Magazine Just $3.99 for 1 Year at Best Deal Magazines, May 6th Only – A Retail Value of $35.40 – Order Now! Use Coupon Code 15CJ0507 and Save an Additional 15%!

Cape Cod Magazine Just $8.99 for 1 Year at Best Deal Magazines, May 7th Only – A Retail Value of $49.50 – Order Now! Use Coupon Code 15CJ0507 and Save an Additional 15%!

WINT (WELW)
Listen at 7:18 AM on Wednesdays to WINT 1330 AM as I go over the deals of the week on the Wake Up Show with Steve and Linda. Also listen simulcast on 101.5 FM! Go to http://www.WINTradio.com to listen to old podcasts or to listen live.

Get $25 restaurant gift certificates for $10 or less using a Promo Coupon Code! Find your favorite restaurants in town! Save!
•More than 20,000 restaurants nationwide.
•Use the deal just like cash for up to 50% savings on the final bill. Restrictions apply. Typically $50 needs to be spent with the $25 certificate.
•Use on your smartphone.
•Easy & Free online exchange.
•Never expire.
•If a restaurant closes or decides not to accept the certificate you will receive a credit to get another certificate.

PAPA JOHNS
Earn 1 Papa Rewards Point for every $5 you spend online (including tax and delivery) at Papa John’s with their Rewards program.

Papa John’s Birthday Reward during your birthday month earns 10 bonus Papa Rewards points through a one-time use promo code you will receive via email. The Birthday Reward promo code and the accompanying bonus points expire on the last day of your birthday month. Once the points have been deposited, they are redeemable for a variety of menu items during your birthday month.

FREE COLLEGE
In New York households with incomes of $100,000 and less will get FREE tuition at State Universities starting this fall!

Free college seems crazy, but in Europe college usually costs less than $1,000 a year!

FAST & FURIOUS MOVIE
The Fast & Furious movie filmed in Cleveland broke the record for the biggest opening weekend for a movie. We saw it and the one scene with the stars driving their cars chasing a limo was filmed in Cleveland. I got a picture of the cars from that scene during a break from the filming when they parked down East 6th (pic above). The drivers that got out of the cars after the scene were not the stars, but professional drivers.

NEED HELP?
What motivated the recent horrific murder of an innocent man that was posted on Facebook? It’s evil for one. His rants also showed that he didn’t manage his money well and it was a trigger for his senseless actions.

He earned $28,800 annually at his job. He purchased a car in 2007 for $21,000, so he didn’t live within his means. He owed money to Payday loan businesses, so he spent money for money that he couldn’t pay back and incurred incredibly high interest rates. He spent beyond his means. He gambled his money, so he wasted his earnings trying to get rich quick. He also went to the gun range to shoot expensive ammunition that he couldn’t afford. Overall he wasn’t a good steward of his money and wasn’t humble enough to adjust his spending.

I’m sure his ex-girlfriends probably could vouch that many of the problems in their relationship were due to money. Many relationships that go sour are due to money. He wasted his money and they probably tried to get him to be more responsible with it. They knew it would lead him to ruin. It did in many ways. He declared bankruptcy. He got evicted for not paying his rent. He lashed out because he didn’t want to be responsible for his actions. He was reckless with his money and reckless in his life.

There are plenty of other people financially struggling. Many are better stewards of their money. They don’t waste it. They use coupons. The only purchase items that are on sale. They go to classes to learn how to save and budget better. They don’t spend what they don’t have. They don’t gamble their hard-earned money. They don’t buy cars that they can’t afford and take public transportation instead. They sometimes get a second job to make ends meet. There are plenty of other options to get out of a financial hole and he chose to dig himself into a deeper one.

He worked at a mental health facility so he had access to getting help for himself. There is a stigma with mental health, but if you need it, get it. We’ll go to the doctor because we have the flu, but some are too proud to go to the “head” doctor when it’s needed. Prince Harry just came out about his needing mental health care when his mother Princess Diana passed. Mental woes can happen to any of us. The world can be a tough place and life can throw a curve at any time. People can be nasty – just read any comments on a news post or Facebook page and you’ll see plenty of people without a care about what they say.

Some people learn the hard way. However, some seek answers to make the path easier and adjust their spending. I always appreciate when people come to one of my couponing/money-saving classes no matter what dire straits they are in with their finances. They are seeking answers and that is all that matters.

What he did was wrong. He had many paths he could’ve taken that would have helped him solve his issues. One that offers help, especially the poor, is United Way. If you or anyone you know needs help, to start, contact the United Way by dialing 211 or go to https://www.unitedway.org/our-impact/featured-programs/2-1-1 to learn more about their programs.

Signed Terry Francona Baseball from GPS Sports Gallery for $89.99 – Save $40!
Cedar Point – Up to 38% Off Visit to an Iconic Amusement Park
Up to 52% Off at Hibachi Japanese Restaurant
Up to 62% Off Window Cleaning from Innovative Window Cleaning
69% Off Ultimate Date Night Package with Movie and Restaurant Credit
Standup Comedy Shows – Up to 58% Off – The Rich Guzzi Comedy Hypnosis Experience or Mr. Showtime David Scott Featuring Jay Stevens
59% Off Outdoor Hose Faucet Replacement by Sal’s Heating & Cooling, Inc
Up to 42% Off at Skye Bistro in Mentor
Jim Gaffigan – Up to 16% Off Standup Comedy
47% Off One-Day Karts Plus Pass at Swings-N-Things Fun Park
45% Off Dance Shoes and Accessories in Cleveland
Up to 68% Off a Safari-Park Visit or Membership

Up to 62% Off Spa Packages and Treatments
Up to 36% Off Escape-Room Challenge at Lockdown Cleveland

CLASS SCHEDULE
Learn how to save a ton of money at one of my classes! Learn how to consistently save 70% and more grocery and toiletry shopping. Find out new ways to save money on restaurants, utilities, cell/smart phones, travel, gas, prescriptions, clothes, and much more! To view my upcoming class schedule please go to: http://www.joethecouponguy.com/schedule/index.htm .

At my Travel Affordably class learn how to get the best deals on car rentals, flights, cruises, lodging, and transportation. Find out how to save on entertainment and restaurants at your destination. You’ll learn where to find bus trips to Chicago for $2 round-trip, Cruises for 80% off or more, free flights, the best places to economically travel, and travel saving secrets.

Be sure to register for libraries that require registration as some have waiting lists. All classes are free unless otherwise noted. I hope to see you there!

If you’re interested in booking a class for your organization whether it be a PTA, Senior Center, Business, Church, or Library, please contact me at joe@joethecouponguy.com or 440-227-6223. I’ve done classes all across Ohio and for many businesses including the Cleveland Clinic, Bendix, Lake Hospitals, Hyland Software, and others. I can tailor the topics to your organization.

If you’d like for me to teach a class at your local library, feel free to contact your library and request me. Have them get a hold of me at joe@joethecouponguy.com to book me.

OUR TOWN AND ALL AROUND COUPON BOOKThe 2017 Our Town Coupon Book is now on sale for $18 with FREE shipping! Save $10!

The 2017 Our Town coupon book has around 1,000 coupons for Northeast Ohio area restaurants, fast food, drug stores, movies, golf courses, pizza, dry cleaning, wineries, entertainment and more! The Best coupon book available in the area! It’s like getting 1,000 Groupons. All for only $18! Some restaurant coupons are good for up to $30 off! The book can pay for itself with just one coupon! The coupons are good through Dec. 1, 2017! A great bargain! Keep a book in each car.

* MISC. COUPONS – Find coupons for Keener’s Family Cleaners, IGA (five $5 off $20 purchase coupons), Gale’s Garden Centers, QuickChange, and Granny Anne’s Same Day Cleaners! Get a $25 gift card at Discount Drug Mart or $15 gift card at Marc’s with the transferred prescription coupon in the book (have them honored as competitors coupons at other pharmacies).

SAVVY SHOPPER BOOKLETUpdated! Get the Savvy Shopper Booklet and learn how to save tons of money! The booklet has over 190 pages with thousands of money-saving tips. Great for someone just starting out or wants to learn more ways to save money. Only $13 plus get FREE shipping! Learn to save thousands and thousands of dollars!

Giant Eagle doubles coupons that are 99 cents or less. For example that means a .75 coupon will double to $1.50 off. It happens automatically when a coupon that is 99 cents or less is scanned at the register – 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Get 10 cents in Fuelperks for every $50 spent ($3 savings).

Get eCoupons good at Giant Eagle at https://ecoupons.gianteagle.com/. An eOffer won’t work if you use a manufacturer coupon for the same item. An eCoupon will supersede a paper coupon. ECoupons link to your loyalty card and trigger when you purchase the item – only works once and doesn’t double.

Plenti Points is a savings program that allows you to earn points from Plenti partners in-store and online. Partners include Macy’s, Hulu, AT&T, Mobil, Nationwide, Direct Energy, and Exxon. Visit http://www.plenti.com/partners to learn more about how Plenti works with each partner. It’s mot much different than Walgreen’s Balance Rewards program. Read more about the program at https://shop.riteaid.com/info/plenti

Through wellness+ with Plenti, customers can use one card and earn two kinds of points. Sign up at https://www.riteaid.com/shop/info/wellness-with-Plenti.
•Members will continue to earn wellness+ points toward various benefits at Rite Aid including discounts of up to 20% off storewide, exclusive sale prices and 24/7 access to a pharmacist.
•Members will be able to earn Plenti points whenever they make qualifying purchases at Rite Aid and other Plenti partners. Plenti points can be used for up to two years at Rite Aid and at certain other Plenti partners.

BENEFITS
Members with 0 – 499 points will be Bronze status and earn (1) 10% off one-time shopping pass with every 100 wellness+ points earned until they reach 499 points. With 500 wellness+ points, members earn Silver status and qualify for 10% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year. And with 1,000 wellness+ points, members earn Gold status and qualify for 20% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year.

Wellness+ points are points earned toward Bronze, Silver and Gold status discounts exclusively at Rite Aid. Members can earn one wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible front-end purchases and up to 25 wellness+ points for every eligible prescription.

In addition to exclusive members-only sale pricing and earning points toward savings of up to 20% storewide, wellness+ with Plenti members will enjoy the following wellness+ benefits:
•24/7 access to a Rite Aid Pharmacist
•Exclusive money-saving offers and information by email.
•The option to load coupons direct to card.
•Members will continue to earn: •1 wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible purchases they make at Rite Aid when they scan their new Plenti card at the register.
•25 wellness+ points for every non-government funded prescription purchased when using your Plenti card
•And 1 wellness+ point for every dollar spent on copays (not to exceed 25 points per prescription) for government-funded prescriptions.

Wellness+ points will continue to reset at the end of each year, but all earned Silver and Gold status discounts remain active through the end of the next calendar year.

Join Balance Rewards to earn points on thousands of items, including every prescription and immunization. Purchase items in-store or online to earn points. Redeem points for dollar rewards that you can get instantly at the checkout.
Click here to get enrolled: Walgreens Reward Program

• Get 500 points for every prescription and immunization
• Redeem instantly with as few as 5,000 points

COUPONS.COM
Get over 200 internet grocery and toiletry coupons at Coupons.com. They will double at stores as per their rules (Giant Eagle, Dave’s Supermarket, and Buehlers doubles coupons of 99 cents and less). Get them before they disappear!

SAVING STAR
Get ecoupons on Saving Star! Just enter in your loyalty card accounts then click on the coupons you want and you’ll get the savings once the item is purchased. Accumulate the savings and then send it to your PayPal account or other account. There is even a produce discount given with their Healthy offer of the week! Get a Freebie item when you have redeemed an eligible number of purchases per month. Get an item for free once you activate the item online and purchase it at a linked loyalty card store. Giant Eagle, CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens are just some of the stores that are part of the program.

WINT (WELW)
Listen at 7:18 AM on Wednesdays to WINT 1330 AM as I go over the deals of the week on the Wake Up Show with Steve and Linda. Also listen simulcast on 101.5 FM! Go to http://www.WINTradio.com to listen to old podcasts or to listen live.

Get $25 restaurant gift certificates for $10 or less using a Promo Coupon Code! Find your favorite restaurants in town! Save!
•More than 20,000 restaurants nationwide.
•Use the deal just like cash for up to 50% savings on the final bill. Restrictions apply. Typically $50 needs to be spent with the $25 certificate.
•Use on your smartphone.
•Easy & Free online exchange.
•Never expire.
•If a restaurant closes or decides not to accept the certificate you will receive a credit to get another certificate.

Priceline is a one-stop-shop for travelers looking for great deals. In addition to getting compelling published prices for hundreds of thousands of hotels, rental cars and flights, travelers can take advantage of priceline.com’s unique set of savings products, including Express Deals ®, Tonight-Only Deals ®, and our patented Name Your Own Price ® bidding service. With these services, travelers can book exceptional deals up to 60% off instantly on their desktop, tablet, or mobile device.

Express Deals is their newest traveler-friendly hotel booking option for guests who need specific amenities. Choose from a huge collection of top hotels and save up to 60% off with no bidding required! They’ll show you the price, amenities, & neighborhood of each hotel before you book. You’ll find out the exact name of the hotel immediately after purchase.

Name Your Own Price® is what made priceline.com famous. If you can be flexible when you travel, they can save you up to 60% or more on your Hotel room and up to 40% or more on your Rental Car, compared to the other leading travel sites.* You name the price, they pick the hotel or rental car brand – it’s that simple.

Search & compare everyday low Published-Prices. Looking for a specific flight, hotel, rental car, or vacation package? No problem. Just tell them what you want and they’ll search through thousands of published itineraries and prices. They’ll instantly show you an easy-to-compare product and pricing chart drawn from the thousands of flights, hotels, rental cars and cruises available. Then, just choose what works for you. They do all the work so you can find exactly what you want in seconds.

Save up to $500 with a Flight+Hotel Vacation Package. Book your flight, hotel & rental car as a package and you can save an average of $500 over buying separately. No bidding required, select the exact Hotel & Flight you want and they’ll show you the best price.

Best Price Guarantee applies to every Hotel, Flight, Rental Car, Vacation Package and Cruise sold on Priceline. If you find a lower price for the same itinerary, they’ll refund 100% of the difference. Book an Express Deal and they’ll refund 200% of the difference – Double the difference!

GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALES
There are lots of stores closing locally. Gordman’s, HH Gregg, B&B Appliance, Family Christian, and MC Sporting Goods are closing all their local stores within the next weeks or months. JC Penney and Payless Shoe Source are closing some of the stores in the area. JC Penney will now start their closing sales starting July 31st.

Most stores have sales that are at least 50% off what they sell, so if the discount for the closing sale isn’t at least 50% I don’t shop there. There are some items that rarely get discounted much and those are the items I’ll settle for a smaller discount. Appliance, paint, batteries, and vacuums are just some of those type of items.

Liquidators, hired by the closing business, sometimes increase the sticker price on the item, so that when they do a percentage off deal it is not as good of a deal.

Nobody likes to see these stores close and jobs lost, so support local brick and mortar stores to keep jobs local!

HOME DEPOT COUPONS
Home Depot will send out $5 off $50 or $10 off $100 coupons for the lawn & garden department throughout the growing season when you sign up for the Garden Club.

HOFBRAUHAUS DEALS & CONTEST
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UNITED’S BLUNDER
You’ve all probably seen the video of a passenger being dragged out of a United airplane because they needed their seat for crew that was going to an assignment. It was ugly. There are plenty of issues with how it was handled and there are ways to protect it from happening to you.

First off, they said the flight was overbooked. It wasn’t. All passengers that booked and paid for the flight were on board. United decided to send a crew of 4 on the flight – so they weren’t paid passengers. Looking for volunteers shouldn’t have been done after the plane was fully boarded.

Typically, if a flight is overbooked, the last passengers that checked in for the flight are the first to get involuntarily removed from boarding the plane. The passengers with the lowest paid tickets also go into the algorithm to decide who gets bumped. If you are a frequent flyer with them or pay a lot for a ticket, you will have less of a chance of being bumped. For that reason make sure you are loyalty reward member with any airline you fly.

Before airlines involuntarily bump passengers airlines can offer volunteers to take a later flight as long as they compensate them. Those rules are under the Contracts of Carriage all airlines must abide by. Find them here: http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/pages/3802676/airline-contracts-of-carriage/ Each airline may have different rules, but they must follow the Department of Transportation Guidelines.

I’ve done it a handful of times where I was compensated for taking a later flight. The longer they can’t find someone to take a later flight the higher the compensation gets. So sometimes it pays to be patient. You end up getting a credit voucher good for a year that can be worth up to $1,350. If you play that game, it’s best to get the first flight of the day so that way you have a better chance of catching a later flight.

As I mentioned airlines can have different rules. One recently changed by Delta is a good one. They will now offer up to $9,950 in compensation. Delta gate agents can offer up to $2,000, up from a previous maximum of $800. Supervisors can now offer $9,950, up from $1,350.

Delta was more generous in their compensation, averaging $1,118 in 2015/16. Southwest averaged $758, United $565, and American $554.

United and many other airlines overbook their flights so that they maximize their profits. They know there is a percentage of fliers that won’t show up for their flight. They can usually find volunteers so it usually works out in the end. But sometimes nobody wants to wait and they are forced to involuntarily pick passengers.

The Department of Transportion sets the guidelines for airlines. It includes guidelines and some tips. One that passengers may not be aware of is that with the compensation you have the right to insist on getting a check rather than a travel voucher. Read them here: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/fly-rights

One airline doesn’t overbook – Jet Blue. I have a feeling that they may get more company in that regard.

QUEST FOR KITTENS
We’ve been searching area APL’s and Humane Societies to find new kittens to no avail. When we do see them post kittens they are gone quickly. One that was available I saw imbed its teeth and claws into one worker. Umm, not that one. Most places have older cats and we wanted kittens after losing our two cats, Dummy and Dummy, last year. We could’ve gotten older cats, but there is nothing like playful crazy kittens. After some searching we finally found some at a place I would have never expected to find kittens.

This past week I told my wife that I needed to get mulch on sale at Home Depot (I had a $5 off $50 and $10 off $100 coupon from Home Depot – funny how saving money works itself into most of my stories) and we would need two cars to get the 45 bags of mulch. She groaned. She groaned even more when I said I needed to stop at Kohl’s to use a coupon and Big Lots next door to check out their grand opening deals.

We stepped into Big Lots and walked over to their couches which were near the entrance. As I look around I see some kittens in a cage. Exactly like the ones we want. I make a beeline for them. There are three of them. I ask if we could hold them and the lady gives us a couple of them. I also want to hold the third one to see it’s demeanor too and to get dibs on them all as there were a lot of people around that seemed interested in them.

It turns out the Euclid APL was there with cats and dogs that were up for adoption.

The kittens were two months old. It’s about the youngest you will see kittens up for adoption. They prefer to have them bond with their mother and siblings so that they are better adjusted and so that they feed from the mother.

So anyways, I’m holding two of the kittens and one of them is getting squirmy and wants to walk all over me and my back. The other two love being cradled and held. Rare for kittens. They just got shots that morning so that explains why maybe they were chill. I put the squirmy one back in the cage. A Mom and her son decide they will take the squirmy one as we find out they already adopted one of it’s siblings. Better to have pairs of kittens as they then have a playmate and it helps with their demeanor.

We just want cats that aren’t skittish. Our Dummies were very friendly and just great cats to the point we even wanted to get the same astrology sign as them. These kittens ended up being somewhere near the sign we wanted, but that’s ok.

We wanted two boys and the two we have are brother and sister. We heard that male cats are better than female cats. Females tend to pee around the house and their demeanor isn’t always as great as a male cat. It’s can all be subjective so we are open to adopting a female cat.

The lady then mentions there are one month olds that will be available. Hmm. In the meantime there are people fawning over the kittens we are holding.

Then the lady tells us that she will let us adopt them for $105 total which is amazing. I didn’t even have to say anything. I must give out an aura that permeates into people’s souls to give me the best deal. They usually cost $110 to $125 per kitten to adopt (most of the cost is due to shots they have to give them). I think the lady could tell we really wanted the kittens.

After some consideration we realize that the two we have are great and decide to adopt them! Yep, we adopted two kittens at Big Lots. At Big Lots.

As my wife fills out the paperwork I tell her I am going to go shop around. I take the two kittens with me. They are so good and just stay cradled in my arms.

The problem is that I still have to get the mulch so the lady says she will hold them until we come back. We load the cars up with mulch. My wife picks up the kittens and the lady lets us transport them in a carrier they have there which we will give back when we have to get the kittens more follow-up shots. She also snags a free Monster drink out front for the grand opening.

She says that they had four people want to adopt them while we were gone.

Now comes the names. Of course, they have to have a goofy names. I told my wife I wanted to name them Laurra and Carol. Yes, Laurra with two R’s and Carol with one C. Didn’t matter that one was a boy and one was a girl. Cats are oblivious to what you name them. Our Dummies never complained to me about their name and they both had the same name.

You end up finding out who people like and don’t like if you plan to name your pets or children one of those names. So Carol got nixed. Laurra with two R’s was approved.

Biggie, Lotta, Bluto, Blotto (versions of Big Lots), Dummy III, Squiggy (because it squeals), Bjorn, Benny (ABBA fans will know those couple names), Caca, Jim Bob, Potsi, Smithers, and Catsup are some of the names up for the male cat. I kind of wanted to see what name stuck depending on his personality. We settled on Mr. Dazzles.

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CLASS SCHEDULE
Learn how to save a ton of money at one of my classes! Learn how to consistently save 70% and more grocery and toiletry shopping. Find out new ways to save money on restaurants, utilities, cell/smart phones, travel, gas, prescriptions, clothes, and much more! To view my upcoming class schedule please go to: http://www.joethecouponguy.com/schedule/index.htm .

At my Travel Affordably class learn how to get the best deals on car rentals, flights, cruises, lodging, and transportation. Find out how to save on entertainment and restaurants at your destination. You’ll learn where to find bus trips to Chicago for $2 round-trip, Cruises for 80% off or more, free flights, the best places to economically travel, and travel saving secrets.

Be sure to register for libraries that require registration as some have waiting lists. All classes are free unless otherwise noted. I hope to see you there!

If you’re interested in booking a class for your organization whether it be a PTA, Senior Center, Business, Church, or Library, please contact me at joe@joethecouponguy.com or 440-227-6223. I’ve done classes all across Ohio and for many businesses including the Cleveland Clinic, Bendix, Lake Hospitals, Hyland Software, and others. I can tailor the topics to your organization.

If you’d like for me to teach a class at your local library, feel free to contact your library and request me. Have them get a hold of me at joe@joethecouponguy.com to book me.

OUR TOWN AND ALL AROUND COUPON BOOKThe 2017 Our Town Coupon Book is now on sale for $18 with FREE shipping! Save $10!

The 2017 Our Town coupon book has around 1,000 coupons for Northeast Ohio area restaurants, fast food, drug stores, movies, golf courses, pizza, dry cleaning, wineries, entertainment and more! The Best coupon book available in the area! It’s like getting 1,000 Groupons. All for only $18! Some restaurant coupons are good for up to $30 off! The book can pay for itself with just one coupon! The coupons are good through Dec. 1, 2017! A great bargain! Keep a book in each car.

* MISC. COUPONS – Find coupons for Keener’s Family Cleaners, IGA (five $5 off $20 purchase coupons), Gale’s Garden Centers, QuickChange, and Granny Anne’s Same Day Cleaners! Get a $25 gift card at Discount Drug Mart or $15 gift card at Marc’s with the transferred prescription coupon in the book (have them honored as competitors coupons at other pharmacies).

SAVVY SHOPPER BOOKLETUpdated! Get the Savvy Shopper Booklet and learn how to save tons of money! The booklet has over 190 pages with thousands of money-saving tips. Great for someone just starting out or wants to learn more ways to save money. Only $13 plus get FREE shipping! Learn to save thousands and thousands of dollars!

Giant Eagle doubles coupons that are 99 cents or less. For example that means a .75 coupon will double to $1.50 off. It happens automatically when a coupon that is 99 cents or less is scanned at the register – 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Get 10 cents in Fuelperks for every $50 spent ($3 savings).

Get eCoupons good at Giant Eagle at https://ecoupons.gianteagle.com/. An eOffer won’t work if you use a manufacturer coupon for the same item. An eCoupon will supersede a paper coupon. ECoupons link to your loyalty card and trigger when you purchase the item – only works once and doesn’t double.

Plenti Points is a savings program that allows you to earn points from Plenti partners in-store and online. Partners include Macy’s, Hulu, AT&T, Mobil, Nationwide, Direct Energy, and Exxon. Visit http://www.plenti.com/partners to learn more about how Plenti works with each partner. It’s mot much different than Walgreen’s Balance Rewards program. Read more about the program at https://shop.riteaid.com/info/plenti

Through wellness+ with Plenti, customers can use one card and earn two kinds of points. Sign up at https://www.riteaid.com/shop/info/wellness-with-Plenti.
•Members will continue to earn wellness+ points toward various benefits at Rite Aid including discounts of up to 20% off storewide, exclusive sale prices and 24/7 access to a pharmacist.
•Members will be able to earn Plenti points whenever they make qualifying purchases at Rite Aid and other Plenti partners. Plenti points can be used for up to two years at Rite Aid and at certain other Plenti partners.

BENEFITS
Members with 0 – 499 points will be Bronze status and earn (1) 10% off one-time shopping pass with every 100 wellness+ points earned until they reach 499 points. With 500 wellness+ points, members earn Silver status and qualify for 10% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year. And with 1,000 wellness+ points, members earn Gold status and qualify for 20% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year.

Wellness+ points are points earned toward Bronze, Silver and Gold status discounts exclusively at Rite Aid. Members can earn one wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible front-end purchases and up to 25 wellness+ points for every eligible prescription.

In addition to exclusive members-only sale pricing and earning points toward savings of up to 20% storewide, wellness+ with Plenti members will enjoy the following wellness+ benefits:
•24/7 access to a Rite Aid Pharmacist
•Exclusive money-saving offers and information by email.
•The option to load coupons direct to card.
•Members will continue to earn: •1 wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible purchases they make at Rite Aid when they scan their new Plenti card at the register.
•25 wellness+ points for every non-government funded prescription purchased when using your Plenti card
•And 1 wellness+ point for every dollar spent on copays (not to exceed 25 points per prescription) for government-funded prescriptions.

Wellness+ points will continue to reset at the end of each year, but all earned Silver and Gold status discounts remain active through the end of the next calendar year.

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Get over 200 internet grocery and toiletry coupons at Coupons.com. They will double at stores as per their rules (Giant Eagle, Dave’s Supermarket, and Buehlers doubles coupons of 99 cents and less). Get them before they disappear!

SAVING STAR
Get ecoupons on Saving Star! Just enter in your loyalty card accounts then click on the coupons you want and you’ll get the savings once the item is purchased. Accumulate the savings and then send it to your PayPal account or other account. There is even a produce discount given with their Healthy offer of the week! Get a Freebie item when you have redeemed an eligible number of purchases per month. Get an item for free once you activate the item online and purchase it at a linked loyalty card store. Giant Eagle, CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens are just some of the stores that are part of the program.

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Saucy Brew Works – 2885 Detroit Ave on Ohio City
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Jo Jo Carloni’s – 1526 West 25th in Ohio City
Collision Bend Brewery – 1250 Old River Road in the old Watermark restaurant spot in the Flats

WINT (WELW)
Listen at 7:18 AM on Wednesdays to WINT 1330 AM as I go over the deals of the week on the Wake Up Show with Steve and Linda. Also listen simulcast on 101.5 FM! Go to http://www.WINTradio.com to listen to old podcasts or to listen live.

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MATTRESS DEALS
A bed can be expensive, but if there is one item that you don’t want to scrimp on it’s a bed. It’s one item you have to use every day and it can affect how well you sleep and your health. You’ll probably use it for at least 20 years, so shop around for one that is best for you. It doesn’t mean that you still can’t find a deal for a good mattress.

The month of May is supposed to be at their best time to buy mattresses. Probably because the weather is finally good enough to put one on top of your car!

Where can you find the best prices for mattresses? It depends on the quality you want. If you drive around town there are some places that put their mattresses outside propped up against the front of the store. To me that doesn’t scream quality when you have to advertise your mattresses by putting them outside in the elements. It’s a like a place that cuts hair putting all the hair they cut outside in piles to attract customers. Maybe they put them outside because they don’t have enough room to display them inside the store. Maybe they smell musty and have stains so they want the sun to air them out and the sun to bleach them. I wonder if they get shoplifted much with them being outside in the open? Hard to grab and run with a mattress. I’m thinking about this way too much.

There is always a furniture/mattress store going out of business. You may find a good deal there, but with them going out of business there isn’t a way to return any items to get your money back. LaSalle is closing stores in Wickliffe (across from Lubrizol), Richmond Mall, and Rolling Acres Mall in Akron. All HH Gregg stores are closing by the end of May and they sell mattresses.

New stores should also offer some great deals. Ashley Furniture is opening next to Costco in Mayfield Heights soon.

Lots of stores sell mattresses aside from furniture stores, including Big Lots, JC Penney, Sears Outlet, Sears, and Ollies. Sometimes they have coupons in their ads or additional discounts such as Big Lots 20% off friends and family discount. Their new store in Highland Heights has coupons in their ad. Levin Furniture has double coupon discounts in their ad this week.

Check http://www.shopyourwayrewards.com for coupons that can be used on mattresses at K-Mart and Sears. HH Gregg has coupons in their ads every so often that can be used on the mattresses.

After negotiating a better price ask for a free bed frame and mattress protector.

Turn the mattress over every few months to increase its life. If a bed is only one-sided, take that into consideration since it won’t last as long.

LOW COST INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS
Wow Air announced that a new route from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to Reykjavik with a one-way cost of $99! Wow Air flies out of 10 U.S. cities.

The new Level Airlines will have flights to Barcelona and other international destinations for $149! Level was launched by the International Airlines Group (IAG), which is the parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and Vueling.

Norwegian Air will have flights from small regional airports in the Northeast to small regional airports in Europe for $64!

These low-cost airlines charge for hot meals on the flight and for checked luggage. Be sure to check the small print for any fees!

NEW RECORD
This past week the attendance at one of my classes broke a record for attendance with around 150 attendees! A record high! I was surprised because I thought the room only held 80 people when I was told there was a waiting list. I found out that 150 people signed up and there was still a waiting list.

I was also surprised how many people were there because the class was rescheduled due to a power outage and usually not as many people attend because the word doesn’t get out. Luckily, the library registered attendees so they were able to call each one of them up to tell them of the rescheduled date. They also had to call each person to let them know about the power outage. Some of the attendees that didn’t get the message in time said they had to dodge fallen trees to get to the library on the original class date.

Travel has become more popular as baby boomers retire and as the economy gets better these past years. Most of my travel classes have been full. The couponing classes not so much. If the economy tanks, that can change quickly.

TOP TEN RECURRING DREAMS I HAVE
10) I sprout wings and start to fly around. For some reason each time I always end up flying to McDonald’s trolling for French fries.

9) A monster chases me and seems to get so close to grabbing my ankles. When I wake up I find out I did 50,000 steps on my Fitbit. To be on the safe side I put Vaseline on my ankles each night.

8) In my dream I find out I’m late because the alarm clock didn’t go off. I fiddle with my alarm clock to turn it on, but instead turn the alarm off. I realize it’s a dream and go back to sleep. Then I realize I incorporated my dream into reality and I’m now late for work.

7) I dream about all the things I have to do over and over again which causes me to wake up. I then proceed to forget all the things I have to do.

6) Just about when I come to the culmination of my dream it ends in a hazy fizzle with no ending of the dream. I try to slide back into dream phase, but it’s more like thinking than dreaming. I think through a happy ending, but I know it’s not the same.

5) A famous person like Bluto, Olive Oil, or Popeye visit my dream and they want to hatch up some kind of scheme to pilfer money from the government. I tell them I’m not interested. They ply me with alcohol, scrumptious hors d’oeuvres, PAC money, and song to join them. I spray them with linen fresh scent Lysol and they disappear.

4) I’m yelling and nobody can hear me except this old guy that can read lips.

3) I find myself in a room full of puppies, kittens, and unicorns. They all start whispering to each other. They eat me using a spork. Yes, not all my dreams are pretty.

2) I dream I’m dressed in my sweats going to a very fancy event. I’m hoping people don’t notice. They do and it becomes a new trend to dress shabbily at fancy events.

1) I’m the only person on a bus. There isn’t even a driver. So I try to drive the bus myself. After a few failed attempts I get it to move. It stops after travelling a few feet. Then I have to let a bunch of people on the bus. They don’t have a ticket to get on. I give them a piece of bacon. I floor it and the road turns into a rainbow. I beep the horn and it sounds like bleating sheep. I then surf on the top of the bus. I then realize I need to stop eating so much junk food just before I go to bed because it messes with my dreams.

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CLASS SCHEDULE
Learn how to save a ton of money at one of my classes! Learn how to consistently save 70% and more grocery and toiletry shopping. Find out new ways to save money on restaurants, utilities, cell/smart phones, travel, gas, prescriptions, clothes, and much more! To view my upcoming class schedule please go to: http://www.joethecouponguy.com/schedule/index.htm .

At my Travel Affordably class learn how to get the best deals on car rentals, flights, cruises, lodging, and transportation. Find out how to save on entertainment and restaurants at your destination. You’ll learn where to find bus trips to Chicago for $2 round-trip, Cruises for 80% off or more, free flights, the best places to economically travel, and travel saving secrets.

Be sure to register for libraries that require registration as some have waiting lists. All classes are free unless otherwise noted. I hope to see you there!

If you’re interested in booking a class for your organization whether it be a PTA, Senior Center, Business, Church, or Library, please contact me at joe@joethecouponguy.com or 440-227-6223. I’ve done classes all across Ohio and for many businesses including the Cleveland Clinic, Bendix, Lake Hospitals, Hyland Software, and others. I can tailor the topics to your organization.

If you’d like for me to teach a class at your local library, feel free to contact your library and request me. Have them get a hold of me at joe@joethecouponguy.com to book me.

OUR TOWN AND ALL AROUND COUPON BOOKThe 2017 Our Town Coupon Book is now on sale for $18 with FREE shipping! Save $10!

The 2017 Our Town coupon book has around 1,000 coupons for Northeast Ohio area restaurants, fast food, drug stores, movies, golf courses, pizza, dry cleaning, wineries, entertainment and more! The Best coupon book available in the area! It’s like getting 1,000 Groupons. All for only $18! Some restaurant coupons are good for up to $30 off! The book can pay for itself with just one coupon! The coupons are good through Dec. 1, 2017! A great bargain! Keep a book in each car.

* MISC. COUPONS – Find coupons for Keener’s Family Cleaners, IGA (five $5 off $20 purchase coupons), Gale’s Garden Centers, QuickChange, and Granny Anne’s Same Day Cleaners! Get a $25 gift card at Discount Drug Mart or $15 gift card at Marc’s with the transferred prescription coupon in the book (have them honored as competitors coupons at other pharmacies).

SAVVY SHOPPER BOOKLETUpdated! Get the Savvy Shopper Booklet and learn how to save tons of money! The booklet has over 190 pages with thousands of money-saving tips. Great for someone just starting out or wants to learn more ways to save money. Only $13 plus get FREE shipping! Learn to save thousands and thousands of dollars!

Giant Eagle doubles coupons that are 99 cents or less. For example that means a .75 coupon will double to $1.50 off. It happens automatically when a coupon that is 99 cents or less is scanned at the register – 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Get 10 cents in Fuelperks for every $50 spent ($3 savings).

Get eCoupons good at Giant Eagle at https://ecoupons.gianteagle.com/. An eOffer won’t work if you use a manufacturer coupon for the same item. An eCoupon will supersede a paper coupon. ECoupons link to your loyalty card and trigger when you purchase the item – only works once and doesn’t double.

Plenti Points is a savings program that allows you to earn points from Plenti partners in-store and online. Partners include Macy’s, Hulu, AT&T, Mobil, Nationwide, Direct Energy, and Exxon. Visit http://www.plenti.com/partners to learn more about how Plenti works with each partner. It’s mot much different than Walgreen’s Balance Rewards program. Read more about the program at https://shop.riteaid.com/info/plenti

Through wellness+ with Plenti, customers can use one card and earn two kinds of points. Sign up at https://www.riteaid.com/shop/info/wellness-with-Plenti.
•Members will continue to earn wellness+ points toward various benefits at Rite Aid including discounts of up to 20% off storewide, exclusive sale prices and 24/7 access to a pharmacist.
•Members will be able to earn Plenti points whenever they make qualifying purchases at Rite Aid and other Plenti partners. Plenti points can be used for up to two years at Rite Aid and at certain other Plenti partners.

BENEFITS
Members with 0 – 499 points will be Bronze status and earn (1) 10% off one-time shopping pass with every 100 wellness+ points earned until they reach 499 points. With 500 wellness+ points, members earn Silver status and qualify for 10% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year. And with 1,000 wellness+ points, members earn Gold status and qualify for 20% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year.

Wellness+ points are points earned toward Bronze, Silver and Gold status discounts exclusively at Rite Aid. Members can earn one wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible front-end purchases and up to 25 wellness+ points for every eligible prescription.

In addition to exclusive members-only sale pricing and earning points toward savings of up to 20% storewide, wellness+ with Plenti members will enjoy the following wellness+ benefits:
•24/7 access to a Rite Aid Pharmacist
•Exclusive money-saving offers and information by email.
•The option to load coupons direct to card.
•Members will continue to earn: •1 wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible purchases they make at Rite Aid when they scan their new Plenti card at the register.
•25 wellness+ points for every non-government funded prescription purchased when using your Plenti card
•And 1 wellness+ point for every dollar spent on copays (not to exceed 25 points per prescription) for government-funded prescriptions.

Wellness+ points will continue to reset at the end of each year, but all earned Silver and Gold status discounts remain active through the end of the next calendar year.

Join Balance Rewards to earn points on thousands of items, including every prescription and immunization. Purchase items in-store or online to earn points. Redeem points for dollar rewards that you can get instantly at the checkout.
Click here to get enrolled: Walgreens Reward Program

• Get 500 points for every prescription and immunization
• Redeem instantly with as few as 5,000 points

COUPONS.COM
Get over 200 internet grocery and toiletry coupons at Coupons.com. They will double at stores as per their rules (Giant Eagle, Dave’s Supermarket, and Buehlers doubles coupons of 99 cents and less). Get them before they disappear!

SAVING STAR
Get ecoupons on Saving Star! Just enter in your loyalty card accounts then click on the coupons you want and you’ll get the savings once the item is purchased. Accumulate the savings and then send it to your PayPal account or other account. There is even a produce discount given with their Healthy offer of the week! Get a Freebie item when you have redeemed an eligible number of purchases per month. Get an item for free once you activate the item online and purchase it at a linked loyalty card store. Giant Eagle, CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens are just some of the stores that are part of the program.

CLOSING
Payless ShoeSource – to close 400 stores – stores closing locally are Chapel Hill Mall in Akron, Midway Mall in Elyria, Massillon, and Vineyard Plaza in Eastlake. Also declared Bankruptcy.
HH Gregg – Closing all stores by the end of May after failing to find a buyer – declared bankruptcy last month

WINT (WELW)
Listen at 7:18 AM on Wednesdays to WINT 1330 AM as I go over the deals of the week on the Wake Up Show with Steve and Linda. Also listen simulcast on 101.5 FM! Go to http://www.WINTradio.com to listen to old podcasts or to listen live.

BEST CUTS
Get $2 off a haircut when you sign up to get e-mails from Best Cuts at http://www.bestcuts.com. When you sign up and add your birthdate they will send you a special coupon on your birthday. Plus get discounts on in-house products. Stop at a Best Cuts now and get up to 40% off with one of their scratch-off ticket promotions.

MOST FRUGAL CITIES
Coupons.com came out with the list of America’s Most Frugal Cities of 2016 (ranked by printing digital coupons). There were some changes from previous years. D.C. moved to first. Coupons.com delivered more than 2.4 billion digital coupons in 2016. Three cities fell off the list this year completely: Denver, Columbus and Las Vegas. Cleveland was 6th in 2015 and 8th in 2014.

SPRING BREAK
We took a trip to see the Cleveland Indians Spring Training in Arizona and Denver to visit some friends. It was a trip with many firsts. We stayed at our first AirBNB. It was our first time to Arizona for Spring Training. It was also the first time getting carded in a long time.

Our flights were free! My wife signed up for a credit card with Southwest and she received 50,000 points with Southwest for doing so. With Southwest each leg costs a certain amount of points. The whole trip was almost 25,000 points. Usually with these type of deals you have to spend $2,000 or $3,000 within a few months to get the points and that’s about it. An easy way to get free flights. Of course, having too many credit cards can pose an issue with your credit, but as long as your bills are paid on time you should be good. It’s cancelling any credit cards that can ding your credit score, so we don’t usually get rid of them unless they start charging a fee.

Southwest Airlines Tip #1 – If you find the price of your flight goes down with Southwest you can get a credit. The best thing is that they don’t charge you extra for rebooking under a lower rate. You have a year from the date of your original date of ticket purchase to use the credit. Most airlines will charge $100 to $200 to make a change, so it isn’t worth making a change, but with Southwest it is worth it because they don’t charge a fee.

Southwest tip #2 – The first two bags are free. It’s the only airline that does it. It’s partly why we prefer to fly with them. Plus they don’t charge for carry-on luggage like some low-fare airlines such as Frontier and Spirit.

At the airport one perk that we enjoyed was having passes to the United Club. If you have their credit card or have enough points to get elite status you get access to the Club which offers free newspapers, WiFi, food, and drinks. We get two free passes each per year.

We signed up last year to get the TSA Pre-check. It allows us to get through the faster TSA pre-check line which we don’t have to take off our shoes, put a laptop into a separate bin, or get a ticklish pat-down from the TSA agent. It costs only $85 and is good for 5 years. Well worth it if you travel a lot.

The rental car started off at an expensive rate, around $230 with fees for the four days we would be there. Rates were very high because it was peak season with Spring Training and lots of car were being rented. I used http://www.Autoslash.com to find the best deal. What’s nice about the site is that they keep checking for the best deal and will rebook you at the better rate with your approval. However; although I didn’t use them in the end they helped me get a better rate.

It happened when they found a better price for me about two weeks before our trip. They found a rate around $180 Total. I then checked to see if I could find an even better rate as they don’t check all the car rental agencies. I knew when the priced dropped for them that it would go down for other car rental agencies. When I checked for other deals I found one for only $106 total with Fox RentaCar! If it wasn’t peak season I’d probably find a deal for around $10 to $15 a day.

Rental Car tip – With snowbirds taking rental cars down south to Florida and Arizona the car rental agencies now have deals to get the cars back up north. Some you can find for around $8 a day with NO one way fee! See the deals above from Avis, Budget and FoxRentaCar.

Rental Car tip #2 – Take pictures of your car rental before and after your rental. Not because you want everyone to see your fine Corolla you rented so that you can post it on Facebook. It’s so that way if they blame you for any scratches or dents you have proof it wasn’t caused by you. Always be sure to indicate any scratches and dents on the rental form to protect you from getting charged for them.

We ended up with a Prius which was great because for the whole trip I used $10.90 in gas.

When I started looking for hotels in Arizona most of the hotels were $200 or more a night. Reason being, it was peak season with Spring Training going on all across the Phoenix area. I kept looking to find a decent hotel for a good price, but I wasn’t finding much. So I resorted to Plan B. I decided to look to stay in a total stranger’s home!

The site I used was AirBNB. It’s been around awhile and I’ve heard a lot of good things about it, so I thought I’d give it a chance. It’s where people put up rooms in their home for a much better price than what you’d find at an area hotel. And boy, did I get a great deal.

When I checked for places to stay I wanted to find someplace with a pool and where the property and owners were rated high. I found one that had both and they were rated 5 out of 5 in all the categories which isn’t always the case. The best part was that it was only $49 a night. You can find stays for around $20 a night, but they may be sketchy. It gets better though.

Before I booked the property I signed up with AirBNB. You have to set up a profile. Part of the reason is that the guests are also rated! Yep, the owner rates you too. That way they know if you’re riff-raff or not.

There is a lot of trust involved. You have access to a person’s home and they may not always be there. They also have access to your room. We had to make sure the front door was locked when we left and came back to the house.

When you first sign up you can get a discount for your first booking. The discount we got was $35 off! In essence, it paid for any taxes and fees making the room just $45 a night. Spectacular deal since the house was very nice. The owners were great too. They didn’t ask if I wanted a creepy massage and I didn’t ask them if they wanted one either. So we both rated each other high.

They have three young daughters so they are renting the room to make ends meet. Very trusting of them to have their kids there with complete strangers. As it was we were always out and about so we didn’t spend much time in the home.

They said they’ve had guests that stay for a month. Seems odd to have guests stay that long. They said they got to know them well enough that they had dinners together. Usually you try to keep out of each others hair.

The bed and pillows were as soft as marshmallows. They may have tasted like them too, but I wasn’t that hungry.

The Cleveland Indians train in Goodyear which is in the Southwest side of Phoenix. It’s not as developed as other areas. There is a big airport next door with planes that are being fixed or gutted and sold for parts.

The Cincinnati Reds also share Goodyear stadium with the Cleveland Indians. They have their own set of practice fields near where the Indians practice.

Sicnarf! (Francis spelled backward – his Father’s name)

Since we hosted a Lake County Captains player, Sicnarf Loopstock, he was able to get us passes to the practice complex. It gave us access to be elbow to elbow with all the players. I’d say there were around 150 players there from all their minor league teams along with the Indians.

I asked our host player, Sicnarf Loopstock if I could pinch hit or pinch run. I figured the coaches there would see some hidden talent in me and ask me to stay. Good thing he gets my sense of humor. He’s got this Santa Claus-like belly laugh and he laughs at pretty much everything I say which is quite normal for most humans.

The one thing that apparently they must train all players to do is to spit … and a lot. I mean a lot. It’s like they are timing their spits to an iambic pentameter. Spit. Count five seconds. Spit. And it’s usually not like a little loogie. It’s a full spray sometimes. I don’t think they need to water the grass on the fields because there is so much spittle being lobbed onto the ground. Yes, gross. If there was a spot of grass growing much better than other areas it may be because the player playing there needs to get tested for performance enhancing drugs.

Travis Hafner was there as a coach. We shook hands with Tom Hamilton, the radio voice of the Tribe. We bumped into Carlos Santana who was getting back from the World Baseball Classic – the international baseball playoffs. U.S. won! Yay!

One thing that can’t be done with the pass is ask players for autographs. They are there to train and they don’t need fans bothering them.

Before.

After.

If you do go to Spring Training you can try getting tickets from Groupon. They offer them at a discount for some teams.

We used Restaurant.com gift certificates for most of our meals. Most of the deals are $10 off a $20 purchase or $25 off $50. The cost is minimal, usually $2 to $5 for a $25 certificate after using a promo code (I post the codes on my site).

Scottsdale’s Old Town – cool town in Arizona.

We went to Denver to visit friends. Just as in Phoenix we were amazed at how much the homes cost. Homes for the most part cost triple the amount they do in Cleveland. A bungalow you can find in Cleveland costing $150,000 would cost $450,000 in those cities. In desirable areas it’s even worse. A 2 bedroom, 1 bath house can cost around $350,000!

Another big difference is the traffic is bad even during non-rush hour times. A six mile ride downtown can take 35 minutes on a good day.

One reason traffic is better in Cleveland is that when the city had 1 million people the infrastructure was already built for a large population. Now with around 400,000 residents the city can deal with traffic better than cities that grew quickly, mostly in the South and West.

We grabbed some “Scene” magazines in the cities we visited to find some deals and happy hours. We found some coupons for restaurants in them too.

Overlooking Golden.

We hiked in Boulder and Golden. Golden is where Coors is headquartered and brewed. Boulder is where Mork from Ork was based. If you don’t know the show you are too young. It was a show with Robin Williams, Pam Dawber and Jonathan Winters in it. Whereas humans are delivered by storks, he was an alien that came from space in an egg. His catchphrase was “Nano Nano”. It meant like “Aloha”, but for aliens.

Denver has tons of restaurants and bars. Lots of hipster areas, including LoDo (Lower Downtown), RiNo (River North), and Highlands. Lots of bikepaths. It’s a very environmental town that is serious about it’s nature and recreation.

Lots of marijuana stores. Yep, the state passed a law to allow marijuana sales. Lots of the street magazines (similar to Scene magazine) had ads for it in the back of them. You could tell by it’s distinctive smell which residents partake in it. Not for me, but to each their own.

Downtown Denver

We stopped at a winery in Boulder. Most of the wineries are in Grand Junction which is on the other side of the mountains from Denver. At the winery the lady doing tastings said something about the couple we were with being with their parents, that being us! Ugh. Yes, the couple we were with were around 30, but man, you just don’t say anything to strangers about their age or weight or even politics. She talked like she was high or drunk or both, so we just shook it off. Funny thing is that we went to another restaurant and they carded us! I felt like a 21 year-old all over again.

One thing very noticeable was the taste of water. In Denver the water tasted very good. In Arizona it tasted like like drool (hmm, I just made a connection as to why).

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CLASS SCHEDULE
Learn how to save a ton of money at one of my classes! Learn how to consistently save 70% and more grocery and toiletry shopping. Find out new ways to save money on restaurants, utilities, cell/smart phones, travel, gas, prescriptions, clothes, and much more! To view my upcoming class schedule please go to: http://www.joethecouponguy.com/schedule/index.htm .

At my Travel Affordably class learn how to get the best deals on car rentals, flights, cruises, lodging, and transportation. Find out how to save on entertainment and restaurants at your destination. You’ll learn where to find bus trips to Chicago for $2 round-trip, Cruises for 80% off or more, free flights, the best places to economically travel, and travel saving secrets.

Be sure to register for libraries that require registration as some have waiting lists. All classes are free unless otherwise noted. I hope to see you there!

If you’re interested in booking a class for your organization whether it be a PTA, Senior Center, Business, Church, or Library, please contact me at joe@joethecouponguy.com or 440-227-6223. I’ve done classes all across Ohio and for many businesses including the Cleveland Clinic, Bendix, Lake Hospitals, Hyland Software, and others. I can tailor the topics to your organization.

If you’d like for me to teach a class at your local library, feel free to contact your library and request me. Have them get a hold of me at joe@joethecouponguy.com to book me.

OUR TOWN AND ALL AROUND COUPON BOOKThe 2017 Our Town Coupon Book is now on sale for $18 with FREE shipping! Save $10!

The 2017 Our Town coupon book has around 1,000 coupons for Northeast Ohio area restaurants, fast food, drug stores, movies, golf courses, pizza, dry cleaning, wineries, entertainment and more! The Best coupon book available in the area! It’s like getting 1,000 Groupons. All for only $18! Some restaurant coupons are good for up to $30 off! The book can pay for itself with just one coupon! The coupons are good through Dec. 1, 2017! A great bargain! Keep a book in each car.

* MISC. COUPONS – Find coupons for Keener’s Family Cleaners, IGA (five $5 off $20 purchase coupons), Gale’s Garden Centers, QuickChange, and Granny Anne’s Same Day Cleaners! Get a $25 gift card at Discount Drug Mart or $15 gift card at Marc’s with the transferred prescription coupon in the book (have them honored as competitors coupons at other pharmacies).

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Giant Eagle doubles coupons that are 99 cents or less. For example that means a .75 coupon will double to $1.50 off. It happens automatically when a coupon that is 99 cents or less is scanned at the register – 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Get 10 cents in Fuelperks for every $50 spent ($3 savings).

Get eCoupons good at Giant Eagle at https://ecoupons.gianteagle.com/. An eOffer won’t work if you use a manufacturer coupon for the same item. An eCoupon will supersede a paper coupon. ECoupons link to your loyalty card and trigger when you purchase the item – only works once and doesn’t double.

KMART
BOGO A GOGO. Dress your Family for less this Easter with BOGO $1 off ALL Footwear & BOGO 50% off Apparel 4/2-4/8

Up to 50% off Easter Baskets & Stuffed Animals + Members get $10 Back in Points on your $20 Easter purchase 4/2-4/8

Top Ten Offers of the Week
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• 4/2-4/29 – Members Get 50% Back in Points on ALL Craftsman Tools
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• 4/2-4/8 – Buy 2 or more Outdoor Living items & Members get $10-$20 back in points when you spend $75-$149.99+
• 4/2-4/8 – Up to 25% off ALL Airbeds, Tents & Canopies
• 4/2-4/8 – Up to 40% off Trampolines, Pools, & more during the Outdoor Play sale

RITE AID
Sale through Saturday.
Limits of 2 or more on some deals.
wyb = when you buy
THey a clearancing items up to 75% off.
Seniors save 20% on Wed, 4/5 from 10 am to 2 pm
Trident Gum Single Pack – .12 PROFIT wyb 4 and after $1.59/3 coupon and Ibotta Reward

Plenti Points is a savings program that allows you to earn points from Plenti partners in-store and online. Partners include Macy’s, Hulu, AT&T, Mobil, Nationwide, Direct Energy, and Exxon. Visit http://www.plenti.com/partners to learn more about how Plenti works with each partner. It’s mot much different than Walgreen’s Balance Rewards program. Read more about the program at https://shop.riteaid.com/info/plenti

Through wellness+ with Plenti, customers can use one card and earn two kinds of points. Sign up at https://www.riteaid.com/shop/info/wellness-with-Plenti.
•Members will continue to earn wellness+ points toward various benefits at Rite Aid including discounts of up to 20% off storewide, exclusive sale prices and 24/7 access to a pharmacist.
•Members will be able to earn Plenti points whenever they make qualifying purchases at Rite Aid and other Plenti partners. Plenti points can be used for up to two years at Rite Aid and at certain other Plenti partners.

BENEFITS
Members with 0 – 499 points will be Bronze status and earn (1) 10% off one-time shopping pass with every 100 wellness+ points earned until they reach 499 points. With 500 wellness+ points, members earn Silver status and qualify for 10% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year. And with 1,000 wellness+ points, members earn Gold status and qualify for 20% off nearly the entire Rite Aid store for a year.

Wellness+ points are points earned toward Bronze, Silver and Gold status discounts exclusively at Rite Aid. Members can earn one wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible front-end purchases and up to 25 wellness+ points for every eligible prescription.

In addition to exclusive members-only sale pricing and earning points toward savings of up to 20% storewide, wellness+ with Plenti members will enjoy the following wellness+ benefits:
•24/7 access to a Rite Aid Pharmacist
•Exclusive money-saving offers and information by email.
•The option to load coupons direct to card.
•Members will continue to earn: •1 wellness+ point for one dollar spent on eligible purchases they make at Rite Aid when they scan their new Plenti card at the register.
•25 wellness+ points for every non-government funded prescription purchased when using your Plenti card
•And 1 wellness+ point for every dollar spent on copays (not to exceed 25 points per prescription) for government-funded prescriptions.

Wellness+ points will continue to reset at the end of each year, but all earned Silver and Gold status discounts remain active through the end of the next calendar year.

Join Balance Rewards to earn points on thousands of items, including every prescription and immunization. Purchase items in-store or online to earn points. Redeem points for dollar rewards that you can get instantly at the checkout.
Click here to get enrolled: Walgreens Reward Program

• Get 500 points for every prescription and immunization
• Redeem instantly with as few as 5,000 points

COUPONS.COM
Get over 200 internet grocery and toiletry coupons at Coupons.com. They will double at stores as per their rules (Giant Eagle, Dave’s Supermarket, and Buehlers doubles coupons of 99 cents and less). Get them before they disappear!

SAVING STAR
Get ecoupons on Saving Star! Just enter in your loyalty card accounts then click on the coupons you want and you’ll get the savings once the item is purchased. Accumulate the savings and then send it to your PayPal account or other account. There is even a produce discount given with their Healthy offer of the week! Get a Freebie item when you have redeemed an eligible number of purchases per month. Get an item for free once you activate the item online and purchase it at a linked loyalty card store. Giant Eagle, CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens are just some of the stores that are part of the program.

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WINT (WELW)
Listen at 7:18 AM on Wednesdays to WINT 1330 AM as I go over the deals of the week on the Wake Up Show with Steve and Linda. Also listen simulcast on 101.5 FM! Go to http://www.WINTradio.com to listen to old podcasts or to listen live.